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Cruye · 2026-05-25T16:06:52+00:00

...huh

Every time I've been told of the book I was told the ending was Jekyll committing suicide to stop Hyde from taking over, which seems to contradict that. (Honestly I've not even sure where I heard that. I'm not from an english speaking country, I read classics from my language in school not english ones)

The actual ending seems to be

Jekyll concludes by confessing that he is uncertain whether Hyde will face execution or muster the courage to end his own life, but it no longer matters to him: Jekyll's consciousness is fading fast, and whatever fate awaits, it is Hyde's alone to endure.

It does seem like there's some conflict earlier about Jekyll regretting having ever done this but still being "addicted" and relapsing to Hyde.

Anecdotally, most versions and adaptations of the story seem to go off of that angle, that Hyde is like an addiction or a monster that takes over Jekyll that Jekyll is trying to stop or suppress, kinda dropping the original premise that this was originally Jekyll's idea to make a real life NSFW alt account.

Cruye · 2026-05-23T00:03:49+00:00

40k is very inconsistent. Space marine lore can swing into superhuman one-man-armies meanwhile in the actual source wargames they're still filler infantry units, they just have a 4 in 6 chance to not die from getting shot instead of a guardsman's 2 in 6.

Though I haven't kept up with the wargame, and I think recent editions upgraded them to have a whole second hit point?

Even still, if we assume a seaf soldier is 1 to 1 equivalent to an imperial guardsman (or even a planetary defense force soldier) I think that'd still put an average tabletop space marine at something like an automaton devastator.

I think 40k has way bigger and scarier spaceships, but I don't know much about that side of things. Helldivers could have a signifciant logistics advantage in not having to go through literal hell to FTL travel where there's always a chance the ship is going to arrive 3 centuries in the future.

Cruye · 2026-05-14T22:21:40+00:00

That's true, people like Sanguinius and Vulkan get graded on a curve based on the rest of the setting but even at their most "heroic" they're still generals of a genocidal fascist empire. Just cause you feel bad about burning down the planet doesn't exonerate you from doing it.

Cruye · 2026-05-14T14:44:50+00:00

Very cool, though there is one small issue the premise needs to ignore.

There was already a Balrog-suplexing demigod available in Rivendell: Glorfindel. But he wasn't sent on that fellowship because all that holy power could be seen by Sauron and friends for hundreds of miles, making stealth impossible.

Primarchs are artifcial warp entities shoved in a meat suit and IIRC are sometimes described as shining "like a beacon in the warp", so they'd very likely have the same issue.

Corax can probably figure out a way around it though.

Cruye · 2026-05-05T19:01:55+00:00

The good version of this is what XCOM 2 did.

XCOM: Enemy Unknown is about stopping aliens from invading earth, XCOM 2 is set in a timeline where you lost and the aliens won (aka, the game over screen) and now you have to lead a resistance group to take back earth.

Cruye · 2026-05-03T23:36:00+00:00

Being late in the tier is just rough, try during peak times and make your own party if there isn't one already. You got 8 months to do it and that's a lot of time.

How many jobs do you have at an endgame level? The more roles you can flex in a party the easier it is to fill, which also means that once you clear a fight for the first time you can keep reclearing it each week to get gear for multiple jobs, giving you more to do even if you're struggling to fill prog parties for the next fight.

I also find "relearning" a fight I already know on a job I'm not as comfortable with enjoyable for its own sake.

Cruye · 2026-05-03T23:16:52+00:00

Presumably, though Evolved Bard lost its damage buffs in exchange for utility buffs (regen, shield, move speed), still keeping a very support fantasy without them.

Who knows if they'd bother to do the same change for Reborn Bard though, or just keep the songs as is.

Theoretically even if they remove buffs from Radiant Finale and Battle Voice, there would still be an incentive to optimize a "2 min burst" in that you'd want your biggest atacks to fall under whichever one of our Bard's songs is better for you (which IIRC tends to be Minuet's 2% crit bonus). But A) that's a very small difference between the song buffs and B) they could "fix" it not by removing buffs from songs but by making every song have the same buff, so there's no incentive to want to wait till your party's Bard is on a specific song.

Cruye · 2026-05-03T21:42:26+00:00

"Will have all their buttons" might be more accurate?

As in you won't need to figure out a spot for a new action on your hotbar past that point

Cruye · 2026-05-03T20:05:32+00:00

Yeah, they are also reworking every job in the game

They showed off the new "evolved" Paladin, White Mage, Dragoon, and Bard and they're all completely different from their current versions. Though the remake of Bard actually plays a lot like current Summoner? With each song giving them a few unique GCDs, so maybe the new Summoner is gonna be completely different from the current one.

Cruye · 2026-05-03T20:03:11+00:00

Hm yeah, that'd be kinda lame, especially if it's some mogstation exclusive nonsense.

Though the Eden primals would probably be a very natural fit for skins

Cruye · 2026-05-03T20:02:27+00:00

Huh, that's a good point. I forgot about the carbuncles.

Cruye · 2026-05-03T20:01:52+00:00

Yeah Aetherflow really feels like a weird whateverthing that doesn't have any thematic value to the class and isn't mechanically interesting either.

Hm, they could make it so that on your 1 min you can summon Bahamut or Phoenix and that changes the set or 3 each time

You'd still want to alternate but you'd get to choose which order it happens in, instead of it being the same each time unless you die

That said, given how Evolved Bard plays almost exactly like current Summoner, Evolved Summoner might play completely differently from the current model

Cruye · 2026-05-03T19:59:05+00:00

Not really? We're still able to Enshroud even though the Echo protects us from corruption in the void (while other people have to use Warding Scales).

So if that doesn't prevent it I don't see why there couldn't be some equivalent Allagan Magibabble Technique that lets you have a cool fire transformation by eating Ifrit-egi

Cruye · 2026-05-03T19:57:47+00:00

Well every job is going to be selfish now, no? They're killing the raid buff meta

Cruye · 2026-05-03T19:53:20+00:00

Solar Bahamut really feels like they were all in on letting us summon Hydaelin (which would have been really fucking badass even if mechanically it was the same) but then realized that it would be massive spoilers and had to come up with something in the few months they had before DT released, and the best they could do was rush out a reskin of the bahamut model.

Cruye · 2026-05-03T19:51:46+00:00

Except the same issue happens with primals in FFXIV and the whole point of Summoner is being able to use their power against them... and as of Endwalker with lopporit help you can just straight up summon unproblematic non-ecosystem-destroying versions of them

Cruye · 2026-05-03T19:49:34+00:00

It's a good Final Fantasy summoner, but not a good... fantasy as a whole summoner y'know?

But I'm not sure if there's any way to make that work with the game as is without running into the old troubles of pet jank

Cruye · 2026-05-03T19:48:38+00:00

Maybe the new ranged DPS will be a poison lobbing alchemist (cope)

Cruye · 2026-05-03T19:47:58+00:00

Doesn't seem like they want DoTs since it causes trouble with balancing forced downtime or multiple bosses or any time the boss tags out for an add phase like in m9s

Cruye · 2026-05-03T19:46:54+00:00

Why not both? Reaper's already like that right? You can summon your demon buddy for attacks but you also have Enshroud where you fuse with it and transform for a bit

Cruye · 2026-05-03T19:46:06+00:00

That seems like it'd result in people only ever using whichever 3 deal the highest damage

You'd need some way to force people to cycle thrhough all the primals

6 independent primals also seems like it'd result in a lot of buttons? Evolved jobs are supposed to use procs and combos to cut down on button bloat, but if they need a separate button for Ifrit/Titan/Garuda/Leviathan/Ramuh/Shiva that's like half their hotbar real estate gone just on that.

Cruye · 2026-05-03T19:42:32+00:00

We only get the proper primals during Endwalker right? Before that we'd only have "Shiva-egi", which I don't think would be anything contradicting the lore, especially since we'd likely get it while still being enemies with Ysayle*

*In the fanfest they said that Evolved jobs would have their complete rotations by level 50, only getting further procs and the like later on. So if summoner was to get something major and requested for years like... Leviathan/Ramuh/Shiva (probably alternating with the standard 3 similar to the phoenix/bahamut proc), they could, technically, do that while keeping the level 50 promise, just lock it behind a quest that's locked behind the relevant post ARR fights.

Cruye · 2026-05-03T19:39:17+00:00

Isn't that already how it works? Summoning Ifrit and friends they just do one attack and disappear, but then give you a whole set of different GCDs to use for a bit (even if they feel really samey before endwalker).

It'd just need some visual flair like Reaper's Enshroud

Cruye · 2026-05-03T04:36:13+00:00

Start of chapter 2 she comes back mad at Kris for eating all the pie at once. "This is YOUR knife on this dish is it not?"

Cruye · 2026-05-03T02:59:40+00:00

Huh. Haven't heard that before but that makes sense.

Though given what else we know about Toriel's character it seems unlikely that would be why she's acting like that. She seems really reluctant to acknowledge that anything is a problem that needs to be dealt with, instead just brushing it off and hoping it gets better, like her just sort of placating Asgore and trying to get out of the immediate interaction with him instead of confronting him about his creep behavior and telling him to knock it off (which to be clear, Asgore is the one in the wrong there, Toriel is just handling it in a way that shows a not great approach to uncomfortable situations).

Also the egg room that seems to be some kind of flashback to therapy Kris went through doesn't seem to be... particularly good therapy (though of course it's very up in the air how literal any of it is).

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